English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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... Euripides ' verses , many Athenians 1255 had their lives saved of the Syracusans , when the Athenians themselves thought many philosophers unworthy to live . Certain poets as Simonides and Pindar , had so prevailed with Hiero the First ...
... Euripides ' verses , many Athenians 1255 had their lives saved of the Syracusans , when the Athenians themselves thought many philosophers unworthy to live . Certain poets as Simonides and Pindar , had so prevailed with Hiero the First ...
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... Euripides gave this reply to one who complained that his character Ixion was impious and detestable : ' But I did not remove him from the stage until I had fastened him to the wheel . ' 635 The cruel Severus L. Septimus , Roman Emperor ...
... Euripides gave this reply to one who complained that his character Ixion was impious and detestable : ' But I did not remove him from the stage until I had fastened him to the wheel . ' 635 The cruel Severus L. Septimus , Roman Emperor ...
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... Euripides ' Hecuba . comedies like other ' classical ' 1516 neither right . . . comedies critics , Sidney supports the separation of Tragedy and Comedy . 1518 head and shoulders by force . 1521 Apuleius ( c . A.D. 114 ) wrote The Golden ...
... Euripides ' Hecuba . comedies like other ' classical ' 1516 neither right . . . comedies critics , Sidney supports the separation of Tragedy and Comedy . 1518 head and shoulders by force . 1521 Apuleius ( c . A.D. 114 ) wrote The Golden ...
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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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